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Gowalmandi Food Street

Gowalmandi Food Street is an experience packed with dining options. It has become a permanent cultural feature of Lahore, hard to ignore for any one. It is one of the most inexpensive places in the world as far as food is concerned. There are plenty of food stalls offering cheap and delicious local food. Most of them have tables on the street, so this a great place to spend an evening eating and people-watching.

Food in Gowalmandi

There are many food stalls and small restaurants to choose from with wide variety of Lahori favorites. The kebabs are always fresh, hot, and very tasty! The food is great. It gives you the taste as well as a culture attached with Lahore. The food is made fresh and in front of your eyes, in this way it gives you the exotic taste with spices. You can have almost all sorts of traditional food, in a real Lahori atmosphere. The specialty of foods of includes Chappli kebabs, fried fish, biryani, tikkas, kebabs, tuk-a-tuk, karahi, tez massala mukkhan mutton karahi and chicken tikkas followed by chilled kheer served in thoothees that’s what the combination you can get and even more there.

Total Food Consumption

On the average, the total consumption is about 120 Kilograms mutton and over 40 kilograms of chicken every day. People prefer to eat mutton karahi and chicken barbecued. The daily milk consumption is in the form of chilled milk, yogurt, kheer, khoya, lassi is over 2000 kilograms now.

Environment

Variety of languages greets your ear. Unfazed by noisy crowd and the bustle, the waiters will get the orders and you will get the whole picture while sitting in an open street nicely lined with thin upright tiles. You could not help noticing what was happening on an open-air dining table being shared by other family.

Attraction for Tourists

Over the years, the Food Street has become a major tourists' attraction in Lahore for locals as well as foreigners. One can always see them eating, roaming around or standing near a huge black vat, where Peshawri Chappal Kababs are made, and taking photographs.

Book on Food Street

The book is inspired by people living abroad, who once visited Food Street and went back to distant lands, battling with continuous experimentation to achieve the magical flavors that they had once tasted. So for all those who long to revisit, the book named “Food Street ke Zaiqe” will transport you to the heart of Lahore with its quaint balconies, kahwa cups, the atmosphere aromatic with saag being cooked, it is a different world out there. This is your chance to cook up the delights to perfection without having to go through self-employed ways and means to achieve the taste once experienced at Food Street.

written by:

Aamna Tariq